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The FBI on Tuesday arrested a Pierce County man on a series of child-molestation charges after discovering a horrifying pair of makeshift dens in the remote woods of Fort Lewis, where they say the man had set up mattresses, toys and cameras to molest at least one young girl and take explicit photos.

Now the FBI is asking the public to help them find any other children who may have been his victims.

Jeffrey R. Smiley, 36, of Spanaway, is charged in U.S. District Court in Tacoma with one count of aggravated sexual abuse of a minor. He is also charged in Pierce County Superior Court with two counts of first-degree child molestation for previous incidents last year.

Smiley has no connection to Fort Lewis or the Army, officials said.
Earlier this month, a 7-year-old girl told her mother that Smiley had taken her out in the woods and raped her, according to prosecution documents. The girl's mother called police.

Last week, the girl guided a county sheriff's detective and an FBI agent from her home to the place where the alleged assault occurred, the documents say. It turned out to be in a rural area of Fort Lewis where troops sometimes train.

Nearby, agents found a small clearing where three mattresses had been spread on the ground, the documents say.

They also found hundreds of printed photos of children in explicit poses, and several pieces of children's' clothing, including underwear.

In addition, the agents found "what appeared to be child-size, homemade dolls dressed in children's clothing," the documents say.

Two days later, an FBI agent returned to the site and looked more broadly around the area, the documents say.

He discovered Smiley's red Nissan Maxima parked there with a blanket spread on the ground, according to the documents.

On the blanket was another life-size doll with a rope tied around its neck "in what appeared to be simulating strangulation," the documents say.

The agent also found a cellphone, two computer memory cards, and a pair of jeans with Smiley's wallet in the pocket, the documents say.

Inside Smiley's car was a laptop computer, two cameras and two more cellphones, the documents add. On one camera there were explicit pictures of the 7-year-old girl, the documents say.

"Due to the number of photographs and the amount of children's clothes discovered at sites hidden in the woods, investigators are concerned that there are additional victims," the FBI said in a statement. Anyone with information can call the FBI at 206-622-0460 or e-mail seattle.fbi@ic.fbi.gov.

In the Pierce County cases, Smiley was charged last summer with molesting a different 7-year-old girl and an 11-year-old girl. Smiley's own mother had turned him in, documents say.

At the time of his arrest today, he had been wanted on a warrant in that case.Ian Ith: 206-464-2109 or iith@seattletimes.com